Not your fault, but hard to read the Irish Times coverage of this issue when it was the IT itself that introduced this attack line to the campaign, via a question from Jack Horgan-Jones and follow-up article

The title referencing the “zip up your mickey” leaked phone message she left her ex husband. “The official autobiography” is full of Partridge-like score settling from the panto queen.

And it’s “un tacos” in the singular, of course. There was a fun article about the history of them a few years ago www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

I can see French tacos doing well in Ireland as post pub food. They’re nothing to do with actual tacos, probably named due to confusion between a taco and a burrito en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_...

When I filled in the online form the PPS field was optional, and there was no mention of a witness form, as far as I saw. Though I received a letter about the new register with a unique ID number, so perhaps not needed in that case ?

« Comme ci comme ça » is a different matter …

You can definitely get away with the occasional chouette nowadays - it’s a little old fashioned, used with light irony perhaps, but I wouldn’t be shocked to hear it.